Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?
KURT VONNEGUTMany people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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